And I remember vividly a now-lost Esquire magazine profile on the double-amputee actors who climbed into Cobb’s meticulously engineered costumes and brought them to life – walking around on their hands, hoeing mulch with their tool-claws and hissing through their vents.

I’ve searched in vain for a good model kit: After turning up only obscenely overpriced Japanese resin kits and the build log for one robot nut’s stunningly good full-sized repros, I had to settle for downloading a free papercraft version.

It took me about 4 hours to print, cut out, crease and glue together this magnificent little toy. If I can find the time to build the rest, I’ll be able to reunite him with his cardboard brothers.